This lesson plan focuses on tabletops/bridges, forward rolls, cartwheels, and roundoffs.
Results Statement: By completing this lesson plan, you will effectively accomplish a 30-minute virtual session. All families should be notified in advance what materials they may need (a soft surface, a towel, etc.)
Begin the class by asking the children: “What is your favorite food?”
Make sure you know the names of each child. People can be renamed in Zoom if that helps you to remember.
Teach them how to do video and mute/unmute.
Warm Up:
50 jumping jacks
High knees
Bottom kickers
Inch Worms
Side lunges right
Side lunges left
Squat and press
Swim forward
Swim backward
Cherry pickers
Blinkers
Neck
Ankles
Tabletops/Bridges (need wall):
Bridge & hold up 5 seconds.
Bridge head taps x 6
Bridge leg lifts x 3
Rock n’ roll
Bridge rocks x 5
Bridge tick tocks with feet
Bridge jumps off toes
Forward Rolls:
*Hold shoe over head
*Socks/shoe between knees
Rock and roll to stand up x 5
Candlestick from standing
Forward roll broken down shoe between knees then without shoe
Cartwheel:
-Hands on towel & jump over x 10
*Sock on good foot (one you kick a ball with)
-Good foot in front, point hands to pinky toe, cartwheel or jump over towel
-If it’s easy, have them try a one-handed
Roundoffs:
Hand placement
Start in cartwheel, to handstand, and down
Introduce power hurdles
Conditioning:
Sit ups x 10
Push ups x 10
Hold push up for 10 seconds
Squats x 10
Frog Jumps x 10
Flexibility:
Straddle each side & middle
Pike
Butterfly
Hip flexors (runners’ stretch)
Hamstrings
End the class with hands in to the camera counting 1-2-3 “Twisters!”